Eric Holder: “This across-the-board cut would have a devastating impact on the Justice Department's ability to protect the American…”

The Independent State Legislature Doctrine says that Courts should not have any role in the redistricting determination. It's an affront to our notion of checks and balances.

This is a slam dunk. I mean, this is not -- this should not be a difficult case to resolve. This is a classic Section 2 violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the crown jewel of the civil rights movement.

In this moment, steps must be taken to respond to the authoritarian measures being considered in certain states and now so brazenly taken in Texas.

I fear is that they will somehow overturn a vast number of cases that have found a way in which to say that affirmative action is appropriate.